Example sentences for: nickname

How can you use “nickname” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelova (Madeleine is the anglicized form of Madlenka, her childhood nickname) in Prague in 1937, the eldest child of Josef Korbel, a diplomat, and Mandula Spiegel.

  • In November he started his Big Self-Portrait . Three years later, an Artforum interview referred to Close by his nickname, "Chuck"--which an assistant had scrawled on some photographs for the piece--and the name stuck as his professional moniker.

  • It is the diminutive form of vespa wasp, and was a nickname given to particularly ill-tempered individuals.

  • Bluecoats , the common Plains Indian nickname for U.S. cavalry troopers, expressed similar sartorial doubts out west.

  • As discussed in a set of Atta-Binalshibh exchanges in August 2001, Ali (referred to by the nickname "Losh") appears to have contacted Atta and expressed the desire to join the operation.


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